To cite package ‘S4Vectors’ in publications use:

  Pagès H, Lawrence M, Aboyoun P (2024). _S4Vectors: Foundation of
  vector-like and list-like containers in Bioconductor_. R package
  version 0.45.0, <https://github.com/bioconductor/s4vectors>.

A BibTeX entry for LaTeX users is

  @Manual{,
    title = {S4Vectors: Foundation of vector-like and list-like containers in
Bioconductor},
    author = {Hervé Pagès and Michael Lawrence and Patrick Aboyoun},
    year = {2024},
    note = {R package version 0.45.0},
    url = {https://github.com/bioconductor/s4vectors},
  }